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CHINA CORRUPTION COULD LEAD TO SOVIET-STYLE COLLAPSE, GRAFT BUSTER SAYS
Yang said Xi's anti-corruption achievements had been revolutionary in turning the blade of the knife inward ... READ MORE›
GERMANS SEE ALMOST NO PROGRESS ON EAST-WEST UNITY IN THE PAST 7 YEARS STUDY SAYS
Eastern Germany still lags behind the western parts of the country in terms of its economic performance and unemployment rates, despite continuous financial assistance since reunification... READ MORE›
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CUBA OFFERS RUM TO PAY OFF $276M CZECH DEBT
Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
GERMANY TO QUASH CONVICTIONS OF 50,000 GAY MEN UNDER NAZI-ERA LAW
The article was finally dropped from the penal code in East Germany in 1968... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
HUNGARY IS PAYING ITS YOUNG EMIGRANTS TO COME BACK HOME
The 'Come home, young person' scheme also offers free flights back to Hungary for young people living abroad... READ MORE›
SKEPTICISM CONFUSION OVER AUSTRALIA SUBMARINE TENDER PLEDGE
Speaking in Sochi, Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that a Wednesday meeting would require agreement between Russia and the West on key points beforehand... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: THE GUARD WHO OPENED THE GATE - AND MADE HISTORY
Mr J ger, now 71, is renowned in Germany for being the man who opened the Berlin Wall ... READ MORE›
EAST GERMAN OFFICER HARALD JAEGER EXPLAINS WHY HE OPENED THE BERLIN WALL
Within hours East Germans were dancing on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate and other border crossings soon opened... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: GOOGLE COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH VIDEO DOODLE
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
BERLIN WALL ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SYMBOLIC RISE AND FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN
Here, we take a look through some of the best photographs from the rise and fall of the 'Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart'... READ MORE›
GNTER SCHABOWSKI WHOSE GAFFE HELPED BURST THE BERLIN WALL DIES AT 86
Within hours, thousands of East Germans were thronging the checkpoints to West Berlin, demanding to be allowed to cross... READ MORE›
'STOP OPERATION SOROS' MOVEMENT BEGINS IN MACEDONIA
The Open Society Foundation, operating under the Soros umbrella, used its funding and personnel to support violent processes in Macedonia... READ MORE›
WE CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE GREECE TO RUSSIA
Never mind that the peril of having fallen the wrong side of the Iron Curtain are all too clearly exemplified by Greece's neighbours... READ MORE›
GERMANS HAVE BEEN REFUGEES BEFORE - THEY SEE THEMSELVES IN THESE SYRIANS
It opened the border to Austria and let them through on their way to West Germany... READ MORE›
REWRITING HISTORY OR ATTENDING TO THE PAST? MONUMENTS STILL CONFOUND EUROPE, TOO.
BERLIN -- In a verdant German village, a church bell that bears a swastika tolls... READ MORE›
US 'TO QUADRUPLE DEFENCE BUDGET FOR EUROPE'
The Pentagon is to propose quadrupling its budget for European defence in 2017 in the light of Russian aggression, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter says... READ MORE›
MARCUS KLINGBERG, MASTER SOVIET SPY AGAINST ISRAEL, DIES AGED 97 IN PARIS
Israel sentenced Marcus Klingberg to 20 years in prison in 1983 for having passed information to Moscow on its biological weapons research... READ MORE›
EGON BAHR WHO LAID GROUNDWORK FOR GERMAN REUNIFICATION DIES AT 93
Two years later, in a controversial speech, Mr. Bahr articulated his concept of change through contact in dealing with East Germany and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
GERMAN MINISTER SUGGESTS NEW YEAR'S EVE ASSAULTS NATIONWIDE WERE COORDINATED
It has been seized on by opponents of chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy across the political spectrum... READ MORE›
WEST BERLIN RECALLS 'ISLAND' OF FREEDOM THAT VANISHED WITH WALL
I don't like Ossies and can't stand being around them, said west Berlin native Monika Bruecker... READ MORE›
A CARIBBEAN ISLAND HE ONCE GAVE TO EAST GERMANY
Part of Fidel Castro's legacy in Europe A Caribbean island he once gave to East Germany... READ MORE›
ALOIS MOCK AUSTRIAN WHO HELPED TEAR DOWN IRON CURTAIN LITERALLY DIES AT 82
Alois Mock, Austrian Who Helped Tear Down Iron Curtain Literally, Dies at 82... READ MORE›
HEINZ KESSLER WHO LED EAST GERMANYS MILITARY DIES AT 97
BERLIN -- Heinz Kessler, a former head of East Germany's armed forces and a die-hard Communist to the last, died on May 2 in eastern Berlin... READ MORE›
GUENTHER SCHABOWSKI, MAN WHO ACCIDENTALLY OPENED BERLIN WALL, DIES AT 86
Schabowski, a member of and spokesman for the Soviet bloc state's ruling Politburo, was speaking at an otherwise dull news conference on Nov... READ MORE›
25 YEARS SINCE THE END OF THE BERLIN WALL
An East Berlin citizen embraces a West Berlin woman after the fall of the wall... READ MORE›
THE DRUG LINKED TO TENNIS GREAT SHARAPOVA HAS ROOTS IN SOVIET MILITARY
Meldonium had its origins in a Cold War-era lab, ordered up by military planners... READ MORE›
RUSSIANS ARE GOING GANGBUSTERS FOR THE DRUG THAT TORPEDOED A TENNIS STAR'S CAREER
Tennis star Maria Sharapova speaks during a news conference in Los Angeles on Monday, March 7, 2016... READ MORE›
SCHABOWSKI, MAN WHO ACCIDENTALLY SPILLED NEWS OF BERLIN WALL OPENING, DIES
Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist Party official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, has died at the age... READ MORE›
IS WEST READY FOR NEW DEAL WITH RUSSIA?
12 April 2017 Last updated at 00 00 BST Could a new grand bargain ease tensions between Russia and the West?... READ MORE›
HOW THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL WAS ANNOUNCED AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT
How the fall of the Berlin Wall was announced as an afterthought... READ MORE›